Re: [libreoffice-users] What's with LO 7.3?

2022-04-25 Thread MR ZenWiz
Same problems still exist in 7.3.3. Except now when I reopen a doc with Writer, it LOOKS likeit'sin the right place,e but the cursor is off. When I type an arrow, then it shows me where the cursor really is. Unacceptable bug. I'll be filing this one with theLO bugzilla. Thanks. Mark On Mon,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread Regina Henschel
Dave Barton schrieb am 25.04.2022 um 20:07: On 25/04/2022 17:18, lo.harald.ber...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Dave, Regina, John, see below, as already mentioned in my last e-mail: Am 25.04.2022 um 17:18 schrieb Dave Barton: [...snip...] the PNG graphic cannot be directly edited from within LO.

Re: [libreoffice-users] changing currency in a spreadsheet

2022-04-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den sön 24 apr. 2022 kl 23:35 skrev Dave Howorth : > > I have a financial spreadsheet that was designed in the USA but I live > in the UK. Is there any way in LO to change all the cells that are > formatted as numeric $ amounts to be the same format but using the > equivalent numeric £ format

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Dave, Dave Barton schrieb am 25.04.2022 um 17:18: On 25/04/2022 09:25, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Regina, I think the two PNG graphics in the Writer Gallery John is referring to are left and right curly braces. Left and right curly braces are no PNG graphics but true shapes. Only 'Insert'

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi John, John Kaufmann schrieb am 25.04.2022 um 17:37: I'm sure there's a lot of history behind why those two approaches coexist, apparently independently. An ancestor of LibreOffice is StarOffice from about 1997, which has already a Gallery. So indeed, it has a long history. Are they in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread Dave Barton
On 25/04/2022 17:18, lo.harald.ber...@t-online.de wrote: > Hi Dave, Regina, John, > > see below, as already mentioned in my last e-mail: > > Am 25.04.2022 um 17:18 schrieb Dave Barton: >> [...snip...] >> the PNG graphic cannot be directly edited from within LO. > Right-click on the inserted

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread LO . Harald . Berger
Hi John, thank you for your reply and the beautiful story about languages in general and from your experience. For me it becomes more and more mysterious. To Writer: Is somehow different for me, is it because of the version? If I right click on the callout in the gallery and select

Re: (resolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice grabs network port

2022-04-25 Thread Dave Howorth
On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:05:12 +0100 Mike Scott wrote: [snip] > All's well that end's well, I guess. Mojolicious has a steep learning > curve, but is much easier and cleaner to use than php for this job. > LO works, albeit slowly -- ~20 seconds to do the .odt->.doc > conversion on a pi4. > >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Thank you, Harald. [I should also begin with a note on language: I am always humbly grateful for those who are willing to speak and write in my native language. (I once worked in a multi-national engineering office in Brussels. There were about a dozen client languages, and office business

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread LO . Harald . Berger
Hi Dave, Regina, John, see below, as already mentioned in my last e-mail: Am 25.04.2022 um 17:18 schrieb Dave Barton: [...snip...] the PNG graphic cannot be directly edited from within LO. Right-click on the inserted object (bracket) and then select "Break". The text can now be edited. Kind

(resolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice grabs network port

2022-04-25 Thread Mike Scott
On 22/04/2022 15:38, Dave Howorth wrote: What investigation have you done? Why do you think the problem is with LO rather than with mojolicious or somewhere in between? Also, what is runcmd()? Sorry, should have said it's a wrapper for perl's open3() (itself a wrapper for system() )

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Regina, On 2022-04-25 04:25, Regina Henschel wrote: John Kaufmann schrieb am 24.04.2022 um 14:52: In years of using OO/LO (now @ 7.1.4.2), I have never been interested in the Gallery of multimedia objects. Now I have an application for it, and can't see how to execute a simple inclusion

Re: [libreoffice-users] changing currency in a spreadsheet

2022-04-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Dave, On 2022-04-24 17:26, Dave Howorth wrote: I have a financial spreadsheet that was designed in the USA but I live in the UK. Is there any way in LO to change all the cells that are formatted as numeric $ amounts to be the same format but using the equivalent numeric £ format instead?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread LO . Harald . Berger
Dear John, first of all, thank you very much for your feedback. This has led me to probe a little deeper into the theme. Well I am not a developer but also just a user like you. Therefore, as a user, you can only ever tell about experiences. It is also possible that I did not understand your

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread Dave Barton
On 25/04/2022 09:25, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi John, > > John Kaufmann schrieb am 24.04.2022 um 14:52: >> In years of using OO/LO (now @ 7.1.4.2), I have never been interested >> in the Gallery of multimedia objects. Now I have an application for >> it, and can't see how to execute a simple

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Thanks, Dave! That did the job nicely. It's easy to forget how many tools LO offers. [For some (like the Gallery) I still have not figured out a use. ;-)] Every day is a school day, John On 2022-04-25 02:04, Dave Barton wrote: I believe Harald was trying to give a more complete answer

RE: [libreoffice-users] changing currency in a spreadsheet

2022-04-25 Thread Ian Bertram
How are the cells displaying the $ sign formatted? I’m guessing they use the currency format. There’s probably a way to automatically select currency cells and change the currency, but that’s outside my expertise. Failing that you could simply edit the $ settings to use the £ symbol in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] What's with LO 7.3?

2022-04-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On 4/24/22 2:24 PM, MR wrote: I know, pretty general subject... I run Xubuntu 21.10 currently on my desktop and I've tried out LO 7.3 because I generally like to run the latest and greatest bleeding edge available. I'm planning to upgrade to 22.04, but I see that 7.3.2 is the default with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi John, Additions: Inside a group the short F2 might not work to bring the object in edit mode. Try double-click on the text. Kind regards, Regina -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] changing currency in a spreadsheet

2022-04-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On 4/24/22 5:26 PM, Dave Howorth wrote: I have a financial spreadsheet that was designed in the USA but I live in the UK. Is there any way in LO to change all the cells that are formatted as numeric $ amounts to be the same format but using the equivalent numeric £ format instead? I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi John, John Kaufmann schrieb am 24.04.2022 um 14:52: In years of using OO/LO (now @ 7.1.4.2), I have never been interested in the Gallery of multimedia objects. Now I have an application for it, and can't see how to execute a simple inclusion of a graphic without its attached descriptive

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread Dave Barton
I believe Harald was trying to give a more complete answer than the simple option you were looking for. Yes, forget the bitmap images in the Gallery Flowchart set, where the name of the flowchart symbols have the name embedded in them and are intended to be used in a different situation than you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread LO . Harald . Berger
Supplement: There also seems to be another bug in Draw. To be able to edit the text in a flow chart object, you must first right-click on the object and select "Break". Kind regards, Harald Dear John, first of all, thank you very much for your feedback. This has led me to probe a little

Re: [libreoffice-users] changing currency in a spreadsheet

2022-04-25 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:15:15 -0400 Fred James wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > I have a financial spreadsheet that was designed in the USA but I > > live in the UK. Is there any way in LO to change all the cells that > > are formatted as numeric $ amounts to be the same format but using > > the